Ah #Germany. This was a fun video to make, even if it was at 1:30 in the morning and I had to be a little quiet so Kaleb and Jilian wouldn't be bothered through my thin walls. Thanks to all the Germans that helped with this episode, obviously I couldn't cover everything about every state so if you'd like to add anything, TEACH US! Put it in the comments! ALSO KEITH WILL BE IN A SPECIAL 2ND FILLER WEEK VIDEO! STAY TUNED!
@@JastwatchingYT No, Austrians speak Bavarian. That's a scientific fact! (No joke. Google it! :D). The duchy of Bavaria (home of the germanic tribe of the Baivvarii) was there first. Austria split up from Bavaria in 1156.
what do you think is the reason for the economic weakness? Maybe there might be a link to the former devision from the eastern part of the city and all of its backland. Berlin could definitely do better, but it helps to have the history in mind.
@@jackrosenthal7757 the history basically is that they had a normal economy, ww2 happened, they were split and during the cold war companies didn't want to take the risk of being surrounded by eastern Germany so they moved to other parts of Germany. That wasn't really an issue at that time cause both sides showed off in Berlin and put much money in it. When Germany unified Berlin was left with few companies, no money cause the boasting was over and had to take care of eastern Berlin.
5:50 Im from Bremen and the "memorial block" isnt dedicated to her as a person, it actually marks the spot of her execution which was the last ever in Bremen.
Die haben NRW auf seine Städte und Katholizismus reduziert. Als evangelischer Oberberger fühle ich mich wahrscheinlich wie viele andere im Süden von NRW östlich von Köln unterrepräsentiert. Das Münsterland, der Niederrhein, komplett Westfalen und die enge Verbindung in die Niederlande und nach Belgien fehlen genauso.
I was to say that too. Even he said "at one point". So, there was a king of Bohemia, the Brandenburger got to be king "in Prussia" which made his kingdom become Prussia and then Napoleon made a whole group of monarchs king. Including our Saxon who before was twice king of Poland. It was really popular to be king.
3:10 When you're so caught up between Germany's international image and history, that "Otto von Bismarck" becomes "Otto ban Vismarck aka. Auto bahn Vismarck" edit: closer to 3:09 actually
Oh, so he said Otto ban Vismarck? I legitimately understood Autobahn-Bismarck as in like his title and was like "wait... He didn't invent the autobahn or am I wrong?"
@@affemitwaffe398 Except the Autobahn was invented while the Weimarer Republik, he just was the "executive" building it without having the money that was necessary...
@@craigveurr452 Yeah, you're right. But I would still say, that he was a developer of the Autobahn, even though he did not invent it. But it doesn't really matter since there are some other aspects in his life that history researchers should focus on.
@@monkey_8227 Urgh! You kiddin' me?! No one in their right mind drinks Beck's. It's for export only. We have our own local and regional breweries: Jever, Nörten-Hardenberger, Einbecker, Gilde Ratskeller, Wolters, Härke, ...
1:13 Baden-Württemberg 2:13 Bayern / Bavaria 3:14 Berlin 4:20 Brandenburg 5:11 Bremen 6:00 Hamburg 6:46 Hessen / Hesse 7:27 Niedersachsen / Lower Saxony 8:06 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 8:56 Nordrhein-Westfalen / North Rhineland Westphalia 9:35 Rheinland-Pfalz / Rhineland-Palatinate 10:04 Saarland 10:45 Sachsen / Saxony 11:40 Sachsen-Anhalt / Saxony-Anhalt 12:18 Schleswig-Holstein 13:03 Thüringen / Thuringia 13:55 Two Other Things Lmk if I made any errors w the state names, I’m not from Germany.
As someone from Mainz, I can forgive the pronounciation, but something that would have been really cool to mention that Johannes Gutenberg is from here, the guy who invented the printing press!
No, he did not invent the printing press. ;P There are earlier presses like that, just smaller. He also didnt invent the printing technique. The first printed book was made more 1000 years before Gutenberg lived!
Der moderne Buchdruck mit den auswechselbaren Lettern einer Satzschrift in einer Druckerpresse (Typendruck), der die flexible, relativ kostengünstige und schnelle Erstellung größerer Auflagen ermöglichte, wurde im 15. Jahrhundert von Johannes Gutenberg erfunden. Er leitete eine Demokratisierung der Schaffung und Verbreitung von Informationen ein - schuf aber auch die Grundlagen für einen massiven Ausbau tendenziell freiheitsfeindlicher staatlicher und kirchlicher Bürokratie. Quote from Wikipedia. Greetings from Mainz!
Larus Novale He invented movable-type printing. Printing press was invented 300 years earlier by Koreans. (Which you can learn all about if you pay the Gutenberg Museum a visit. Very interesting stuff.)
Sorry guys. I know that printing was a thing before that, I just wasn‘t aware that it was also called a press. I thought press then referred to that movable printing stuff someone mentioned before. My English terminology in that regard is a bit janky. I still think that his contribution to things like the reformation was important enough to consider him the inventor of printing in Europe basically
@@_mortiam it's more the mixture of the cliché sense of german "superiority", the inherent and utterly different world the austrian and the german live in and the seemingly neverendless story of Bavaria, somehow Germany but it never really wanted to be a part of it - like Britain and the EU now ;) All distilled in one short quote.
@@berndisterndi-gugutschatscha The majority of the British didn't vote for and don't want Brexit!!! Only 37% of the electorate voted to leave, so whilst you will still hear a lot of lies and from either misinformed, dishonest, or unintelligent British politicians who are still selling their impossible dream, for mostly self interest this isn't the view of most people in the country (politicians acting in their own self interest, surely not). Many of us are still hoping that it won't happen, however unlikely that seems at the moment. Nothing should ever be distilled into one short quote on any subject!!! Loved the video and Bavaria and Austria are amazing places, and I'd recommend anyone who hasn't been goes if they have the chance, so much amazing scenery, history, culture, food, drink, people, and much more.
6:30 Hamburg isn't really the IT capital of Germany. That's a title a lot of german cities claim, for example Munich, Hanover, Berlin and also Bielefeld, a city that, according to some people, doesn't even exist. Also everyone knows the actual IT capital of germany is Delmenhorst.
Hamburg has a lot of SAP stuff, so their IT sector is really strongly interconnected to economical stuff. Berlin is the biggest start-up city besides of Amsterdam and London and has a lot of projects going on, very diverse. Munich is everything with engineering practically. So yeah, they are all IT capitals in their own way.
As a direct neighbor to Delmenhorst I can tell you: No. Delmenhorst is the capital of crime, dirt, potholes and bad drivers. As for the IT, I highly doubt anyone over there does even know how to put on a PC.
@@gubblfisch350 In nursery school you learn it, then at the first 4 years of school are optional, the next two are mandatory and then optional again. You see theres a reason why we dont speak much french because its shitty to learn here
Awwwwww, I, as an import to the Low Lands, can forgive him especially as he's got two filler week videos this week. Besides, did you see on his social media that he had over 400 emails offering to help him on The Netherlands. My head would be spinning from that alone.
Fun Fact: The capitals of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are right next to each other seperated only by the rhine river. If you were to cruise along the middle of the rhine river one half of your boat would be in mainz and the other in Wiesbaden.
7:50 No, the amish don't speak a variation of plattdeutsch. They speak a variation of palatine German or some subgroups speak an allemanic german. Both variations have pretty much nothing todo with plattdeutsch.
I think Amish dialectic is akin to Cajun French. Both groups immigrated to America centuries ago. Over time, both Amish and Cajun French (both isolated communities) changed and developed their own words, which had nothing to do with the mother tongues in Europe. Most French people understand maybe 1 word of every 10 words of Cajun. A few years ago, when there was a murder in Lancaster County PA (Amish country), the FBI brought in a German to translate. He didn't know what the hell they were talking about :)
I'm mildly proud to be one of the few Americans who understand that the two different tribes "Germanni" and "Alemanni" are responsible for the name of the country in most of western Europe... The Slavs though... I think their general Niemcy/Nemecko/etc is probably tied to the ancient word concept of nemesis.... at least that's the idea I got from r/Polandball. Strangely, given my inherent linguistic psychic powers I see the tie between Duitsland, Deutschland, and Tyskland...
@@dm-gq5uj Do you think every German does understand every german dialect? Of cource, languages and dialects change over the years. But somebody not able to understand the original dialect, can also not understand the changed Version.
Some interesting facts: Bavaria: There is a linguistical and cultural divide between Bavaria and Frankonia. Some decades ago, they tried the succession from Bavaria. Hesse: The actual state are mostly the borders of the Hesse-States (Hessen-Darmstadt, Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Homburg), the free city Frankfurt and Nassau. For a long time the area between Mainz and Worms was part of it. That's the reason it's called Rheinhessen. Lower Saxony: The original Saxony. Saxony and Saxon-Anhalt got this name thanks to the dispute between Barbarossa and Henry the Lion. Schleswig-Holstein: The danish population have their own political party. It doesn't apply to the 5% rule, so they always have a seat in the Parlament.
@Hernando Malinche Another reason why Austria isn't part of Germany is also that the emperor of Austria, when offered the crown of German emperor, did not want to lose his territories in the Balkans, Italy and Poland so that he declined.
@Hernando Malinche they weren't able to absorb it. Neither Austria or Prussia was able to absorb the other. Because of that it came to war. Germany could only formed by one big nation.
I'm from Poland and many Poles treat areas close to Szczecin on a German side, as a cheeper and more rural alternatives for a suburb houses and cottages in Poland.
@@singharpan9859 Because of royal families and medieval politics. What we call proper Saxony today was Upper Saxony back then. But now, Upper Saxony is just Saxony and the core region where the Saxons originated from is now Lower Saxony. To vastly oversimplify it.
Also as someone from Thuringia myself a few more tidbits: The state capital Erfurt once had 38 churches of which only 27 remain including one of the oldest Romanesque style churches, it still has the oldest and biggest freeswinging medieval bell in the world the Gloriosa, the oldest Jewish treasure in Europe was also found in Erfurt. The English royal house was once called Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with their main seat the Ernestine castle in Gotha. Eisenach has a medieval castle where Luther spent his too, the Wartburg which is also on UNESCO list. The Thuringian Forest and Rennsteig are kind of the pendant the Black Forest. Thuringia also has the highest density of castles and palaces in Europe which makes maintaining them difficult, hence why some have been given back to their original noble owners.
You kinda mentioned it but also got it wrong... The Germanic tribe of the Saxons has absolutely nothing at all in common (besides the name) with the people of Saxony. Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein is the homeland of the Saxons and they never moved to modern day Saxony. The confusion comes from some political mess centuries ago. After that Saxony lost it's original homeland but didn't stop calling itself Saxony.
Some Saxons and Flemish actually moved into the area of modern-day Saxony, but they account for less than 5% in influx... I sent them a mail explaining why Saxony is called Saxony despite being mostly franko-thuringian and sorbian in ancestry. A ruler of the house of Wettin married into the Saxon royal family and adopted the royal title. He then went on to call his lands "Kingdom of Saxony" in honor to his new title and to this day no one ever felt like changing the name... except for "Kingdom of"
Agreed. It was basically like lords taking on the title of "ruler of Saxony". First it shifted from modern Lower Saxony to what is now Saxony-Anhalt (under the House of Ascania) and then to what we today call Saxony under the House of Wettin, under the pretense that some ancestor of theirs was a lord of the original, north-western Saxony. That's why there's not one, not two, but three Saxonies. Greetings from somebody who has lived in all of them!
They should rename the state of Saxony to Upper Saxony, that would be a *little* more legitimate. As in today's Saxony, non of the native inhabitants are related to the ancient Saxons. The Saxons lived in the areas of today's Lower Saxony, parts of Westphalia and parts of Saxony-Anhalt. So, the only people who are NOT Saxons are the ones living in the state Saxony.😄
the saxon tribes lived (mostly) in the north, though they weren't sedentary and had what is today the North and northeast as their domain. The Electorate/Kingdom of saxony was where Saxony is today though, which is where the name comes from in that part
1) Baden-Württemberg is not Swabia, there exists a lot of rivalry between Baden on the west (Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg) and the east (Stuttgart, Tübingen, etc.), and the west is often culturally closer to Alsace/Pfalz than Stuttgart and the east. 2) Bavaria is not the only state to have had a king, nearly all former duchies/kingdoms (today's states) had kings/regents, none after WW2 though. You are right though in saying that Bavaria generally likes to think of itself as distinct from the rest of Germany. Also, King Ludwig II's death (and life) was far more mysterious than simply "he drowned himself". 3) I don't know who you talked to about Berlin but that view of the city is a bit dated, by about 15 years, perhaps. These days it's becoming especially popular among the younger generation, digital nomads, and English speakers, not to mention the soaring tourism rates. It's way more multicultural than almost anywhere else in the country (except pockets in big cities like Cologne), and it's very distinct from the rest of Germany. Also the thing about the airport isn't really a Brandenburg thing in specific, it's heaps of mismanagement at various levels.
Baden-Würtemberg and Bavaria are really both patchwork states built by Napoleon with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (though Baden and Würtemberg were only joined later, it was Napoleon who made them huge states when he discontinued states like the Palatinate and lots of others).
Love learning about where my ancestors came from. I'm almost fully German besides a little English from my mom's side. Other than that, my dad's family came from North Rhineland-Westphalia, and the German part of my mom's family came from Bavaria! We have cousins in Germany that we keep in contact with! They only speak and write in German, so every Christmas when we get a Christmas card from them I have to try my hardest to translate it! I'm learning German so I can actually write back to them eventually!
nice that you keep in touch with your German heritage. :) I know learning German can be difficult, but dont give up, its worth it and not only to communicate with your family. ;) Lots of love from Offenbach am Main, Hessen! 😊🖤❤💛
if Frechen is your Sir name, i can tell you, Frechen is a small City close to Cologne, basically almost part of cologne, but there is nothing going on. No sights, no famous people born.
PLEASE don't say Moin moin when you come to Schleswig- Holstein. 'Moin Moin' is like saying you want to cheew the ear of the other person of! Just say Moin with a slight nod thats more than enough to say 'Hello'. ;) Less words more straight forward meaning ;)
Alsace-Lorraine has gone back and forth between Germany and France so many time. My great-grandmother was from there, before emigrating to Canada. She considered herself to be French.
@@sixletters9759 yeah I am from Moselle, my great grandmother was born German, and my great uncle was forced to fight for Germany during world war II. It makes very interesting history.
Hamburgers (the food) are actually named after Hamburg. They were first sold by immigrants from Germany in NY. Back then, Hamburg was the "door to the world". Every German who immigrated to the US had to go through Hamburg.
As a proud Saarland resident, I'm slightly disappointed in the fact that the Saarschleife hasn't been featured. It's one of the most enticing all-natural views one can get and a must-have when you're on a trip through Germany, especially if you're on route to get to France. However, it's definitely nice to receive a bit of intel on what other cultures and other nations think about our states, so good job on that!
Japanese prefectures, Italian regions, South Korean provinces, French regions (including the overseas territories), Argentine provinces, Chinese provinces, eventually Swiss Cantons (as a filler week somewhere in between the nations that begin with T or U?)
"Schleswig-Holstein is like the Denmark of Germany" That is in fact accurate and most radio stations have weather reports for north germany. And by that they mean every northern state except SH. So you are get better weathereports from danish radio stations. Also yeah we don't talk much. And if someone asks you "Na wie is?" you just answer with "Joa muss ja". No more talking needed
Hey! Sebastian from Schleswig-Holstein here! I love your videos and learned much from them! Thank you very much for that! =) As a native "Schleswig-Holsteiner" I have to make a small comment here: A study from 2015, which was made by the university of Hamburg, counted about 100000 people of danish origin in whole Germany. 25000 of them live in Hamburg. So I consider 75000 out of 2,89 Mio. not as "many" danish speaking people ;). Of course, it is common, to learn danish. In many schools, it is even the first foreign language or the second after english. But this is more usual close to the danish border, than it's in south Schleswig-Holstein. But still there are few, who speak good danish. My second point: There is a saying in S-H, which says: Hallo heisst hier "Moin", "Moin Moin" is Gesabbel!" which roughly translates to "To say Hello, you say Moin, if you say "Moin Moin", you talk to much!" Thought, this could be interesting for you! ;) Best wishes, A northern German Fan!
Yeah don't know how he got that wrong. I mean he even mentioned that there is a connection between Lower Saxony and Netherlands. But there is also a historical connection to britain.
Thank you for posting this. Yes, the Black Forest is in Baden Würrtemberg and Germany is known for its fairy tales. The famous Grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm), however, originated from Hessen and did not create, but rather collect the Grimm's Fairy Tales, mainly in the Hessen area. Thank you, by the way, for making such a good effort trying to pronounce German names of cities and countries as well as you do!
I wanted to say the same. Saxony only got the name from the Saxon dukes who inherited the region, the people there have nothing to do with the Saxons who settled England.
@@Berzelmayr Agree so much No disrespect to meißnians but they don't even speak the Saxon Language (Plattdeutsch), They don't even call themselves "Saxon" until few centuries ago
Hamburg is often referred to as "Das Tor zur Welt" - Germanys gateway to the world. It has that huge port in the middle of the city, where you see large container vessels and cruisliners pass by like they were cars. Hamburg is less conservative than the rest of Germany (exept Berlin maybe), very open minded and international. It is also the most beautiful and diverse german city and has been voted that many times. They have the most interesting and diverse architecture both historic and modern, most bridges in the world next only to NYC (there is water everywhere), huge nightlife, huge cultural diversity, many beautiful! beaches (in the city!), germany's only "Süsswasserauenwatt" (a unique freshwater tideland forrest), city forrests, lakes and swamps, it is just full of trees and parks, it is all green. In the very center of the city lays the huge Alster lake. The district of Blankenese lies on a steep hillside and is mostly accessible only by stairways, It's often compared to a southern french mediterranean village. The "Speicherstadt" (Unesco world heritage) is a whole historic harbour district built of red clinker bricks and into the huge Elbe river. The beauty of Hamburg is not as obvious as the beauty of other cities (which have all old buildings and that's it), but it has that and just so much more to offer. People are friendly, open, down to earth and fun (although stereotypes will tell you otherwise), and they are known for a somewhat sarcastic humour which is often misunderstood by the south. And the hoppy beer is better than in the south. They have the worldfamous Mojo Club, Golden Pudel Club and countless other unique clubs with a big big live scene. Choose from 50 to 100 concerts every day. The Reeperbahn district in St. Pauli has the most concentrated nightlife in all of germany, maybe Europe. Hamburg has a huge university, it has the FC St. Pauli soccer team, that is known worldwide for its unique fan culture, also the HSV team, which was the "dinosaur" of german soccer until they descended to the second league for the first time last year. Hamburg has the hamburgers original! And the "Museum of Hamburg history" will just simply blow your mind. It is a very rich city, but not everybody is rich. Beyond the wealthiness unfolds a so unique 'peoples culture' and subculture. Hamburg is as diverse as it gets, and it takes time to be discovered.
Waaaait! I'm gonna stop you right there! As someone who lives in Brandenburg (Potsdam) I just want to point out that the BER, so the Airport who just wont finish.. that's Berlins responsability! We don't have anything to do with that! Nope! xD Man even we joke about that thing. Did you know that they had the lights on 24/7 for about 4 Month before realising they can't find the damn light switch? Honestly.. that really happend. xD Noone remembered where they put it. That whole airport is a joke and it's not brandenburgs fault! :D
Kurzer Hinweis, der BER war ein Projekt von 3 Bündnispartnern: Berlin, Bund und Brandenburg. Und es gab gigantische Fuckups von allen Seiten. Allerdings haben es die Bündnispartner von Bund und Brandenburg gut geschafft, die ganze Schuld auf Berlin abzuwälzen
@@MWoyde Insgesamt korrekt. Hauptverantwortlich sind in meinen Augen die Politiker der beiden Länder, die quasi einen neuen Weg beim durchführen von Großprojekten einschlugen. Alles in Allem ein schwache Folge von Geography Now. Zu Brandenburg hätte man so viel Bekanntes erzählen können. Z.B. der Spreewald, Sorben und Wenden in Südbrandenburg, Tagebau mit den größten beweglichen Maschinen der Welt ect.pp.. Außerdem gibt es kein "Cottbus-Castle". Das gezeigte Bild ist das Cottbuser Staats-Theater.
The word Porsche has two syllables (1:25). 2:39 - Bavaria was not the only country with it's own king (the others were Saxony, Württemberg and Prussia). Bremen is not the only Free Hanseatic City (the other being Hamburg). The Habours of Bremen and Bremerhaven are not on the Elbe river. The territory of North-Rhine-Westphalia (not North Rhinland Westphalia!) is not completely couloured in this map for some reason: 8:56. Cologne is not the "media-capital" of Germany (that would be Berlin). The Sorbian minority is mostly situated in southern Brandenburg (and not in Saxony). the dumplings are called Klöße (not koöße: 13:44). The singular for Federal State is "Bundesland" (14:04 "Bundesländer" is the plural).
And the current federal state of Saxony, historically also referred to as Upper Saxony (Obersachsen), has nothing to do with the original Saxons who -- in the 6th century -- also settled on the British Isles (along with the Holsteinian Angles and the Danish Jutes). Old Saxony (Altsachsen) was mostly situated in the current federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The reason the name "Saxony" moved southeast along the Elbe river is that the ducal title was enfeoffed to various ruling houses over the centuries (Henry the Lion -> Ascanians -> Wittenberg -> Meissen) that had their other possessions farther (south)east and either were stripped of their title, died out, or split into various cadet branches.
I'm sorry to say that, but Berlin is just the capital... the media capital should be Munich or Düsseldorf, but that maintains on the counting disciplines.
The Grimm's fairy tales do not root in the Black Forest, but in the Harz. There are a lot more free hanseatic cities: Lübeck, Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund
The Anglo and Saxon were two major tribes in Schleswig Holstein wich started settlements in England wich is why English is called Anglo-Saxon and why English has a lot of words in common with Platt-Deutsch like the word Clock for example...
And Franconia is a place in Northern Bavaria that shares it's name with the country of France. Basically East and West Franconia, where the West became France and the East became a clusterfuck of German states.
Well Not quite... Niedersachsen was primarily occupied by the Frisian tribe. The Schleswig-Holstein area was where the Angel-Tribe came from. The Saxon’s occupied modern day „Westfalen“ The white horse that’s on the Westfalian banner is Widukinds white mare that he rode instead of an black Stallion as he became Christian, thus ending the Saxonrevolts under Chalemange. Or so the Legend goes 😜
Ah it really hurts being called "Swabian" when you're from Baden... Yes there is a heavy difference between Baden and Württemberg. And only the Wurttembergs are Swabians, the other half of the state aren't... Baden-Württemberg is pretty much a forced marriage.
I know you to be right because my Mom is from Geislingen (a.d.S.) but I have to ask you to forgive him because I would say that most people outside of B-W. dont know that. And here a translation for Florian Wieses comment: "As a swabian I dislike to say this to someone from Baden but you are right."
Only a Badner, being the little insecure brother, needs to mention the "heavy difference" between Schwaben and Baden. For an outsider the two regions are actually very, very similar.
@@jakobbrenner3820 Basically, the butt-hurt goes both ways. Technically, both are parts of what makes up the Alemannic speaking area of Germany. Historically, though (and Badener will hate me for saying it), the Swabians are the major branch of Alemannic people down there, as can be easily seen in the Germanic tribe of the Suebi.
Well no, Württemberger are not really the same as Swabians, I as an Oberschwabe would use the term "Württemberger" for people living in the north in the region around Stuttgart, and not for discribing myself. In fact they have a slightly different diaclect compared to ours here in the south and also an other way of living and thinking, as you for example can see in our elections.
You forgot to mention Ludwig van Bethoven, who was born in Bonn (North Rhine Westphalia), wich is also the former capitol of former west Germany before 1990.
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Ah #Germany. This was a fun video to make, even if it was at 1:30 in the morning and I had to be a little quiet so Kaleb and Jilian wouldn't be bothered through my thin walls. Thanks to all the Germans that helped with this episode, obviously I couldn't cover everything about every state so if you'd like to add anything, TEACH US! Put it in the comments! ALSO KEITH WILL BE IN A SPECIAL 2ND FILLER WEEK VIDEO! STAY TUNED!
Do something special for the Balkans please!!! We all want to see you suffer
Overseas Territories of the United Kingdom next please!
"Baden-Württemberg, Swabian culture"
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*triggered all Badner ppl*
Hello again neighbours :D
You should mansiond Bayern München with Bavaria Bayern is the best football club in the world
Good that you mentioned our 17th federal state Mallorca.
You mean the 16th federal state after excluding Bavaria?
@@__maxyz Korrekt ^^
But he forgot Elsaß-Lothringen...
Where are Poland and Austria through?
@@obi-wankenobi9871 *Anschluss wants to know ur location*
In Northern Germany you say "Moin!", because "Moin moin!" is already too much talking.^^
True.
Same for some regions in Rhineland Palatinate, but there's only "moin".
I suppose that's kinda related to Finnish's "Moi Moi" in a way?
Good to hear that it isn't just Southern Jutland that only says moin once. Twice is unnecessary.
moi mooie means "what a beautiful day, isn't it?" as far as I know, while moin just translates to " 'sup? "
Im Saarland sind alle Stammbäume rund.
Am Valentinstag mischt man den Liebsten Blumen unters Kraftfutter
G'schichten ausm Saarland
FFM junge
Wow du hast es erfasst😂😂😂
@@alinabluesky ja was denkst du oh yeah nahui
"The link between Human and Austrian" what a wise man.
He also said
'' politics are like sausages. The east you know about how they are made, the better''
Yes, as a Bavarian, I love Austria. Very similar cultures.
Yeah Otto bon Vismarck was wise
@@nicoschontag3145 either Bavarian speak austrian German or Austrians speak Bavarian German you can decide.
@@JastwatchingYT No, Austrians speak Bavarian. That's a scientific fact! (No joke. Google it! :D). The duchy of Bavaria (home of the germanic tribe of the Baivvarii) was there first. Austria split up from Bavaria in 1156.
Never in my life have I heard a description of Berlin that accurate
Berlin, a shitty place to be
Reichshauptslum Berlin
Most certainly not
what do you think is the reason for the economic weakness?
Maybe there might be a link to the former devision from the eastern part of the city and all of its backland.
Berlin could definitely do better, but it helps to have the history in mind.
@@jackrosenthal7757 the history basically is that they had a normal economy, ww2 happened, they were split and during the cold war companies didn't want to take the risk of being surrounded by eastern Germany so they moved to other parts of Germany. That wasn't really an issue at that time cause both sides showed off in Berlin and put much money in it.
When Germany unified Berlin was left with few companies, no money cause the boasting was over and had to take care of eastern Berlin.
i just love how youtube captions translated your pronunciation of "otto von bismarck" as "autobahn bismarck".
gave me quite the chuckle.
Pickle Neck Yes it gave me a chuckle as well
Or "Völkling" as f*cking..
Or Magdeburg = McDouble XD
Famous f1 driver? :p
The thing is that these are not auto generated subtitles 😉
Saarland: Frenchie Germans
Luxembourg: am I a joke to you?
Luxemburg ist nicht in Deutschland
@palki01 Ja aber die Kultur ist eine Mischung deutsch und französisch
Yes but the culture is a mixture of German and French
luxembourg is an independant country, and i'd say they're more german-ish frenchies
Pfälzer hier. Saarland ist Ausland. Zu welchem Land es gehört ist egal. Für uns ist es nicht Deutschland
@@Duck-Sweet-Sour sprich für dich ich sehe alle deutschen als Teil unseres Landes
Fun fact: Hamburg has more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam.
Funfact, the Saarland is the Alabama of germany.
@@luzifershadres Sweet Home Saarland.....
*hustet* AKK
@@dayawalker G'schichten aus'm Saarland
*SOME* have unique dialects.
Boi
We have different dialect for every city and small towns. Most likely a thousand dialects.
Pump those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers!
Ever been to Switzerland? We have a different dialect every 10 Metres :D
OmegaRaptor CH damn how they communicate then?
@@Stoneface_ Most people understand the standard variaty, called Hochdeutsch, and dialects generally get out of use in Germany
Dat is richtig
English : out of order
German : Außer Betrieb
Swabian (german dialect) : Des Glomp isch he
wat
:D
IchSelbst Ich habe nicht sprechen deutsch🤨
👍😂🤣💦
Des Gelumb is/isch hiie
@Da Jakl liegt wohl daran dass Bayern und Schwaben eine ähnliche Sprachfarbe haben :D
Bavaria is the Texas of Germany.
Ciarán Kelly It’s so accurate it hurts😂
Though I dare say: Bavaria is actually a beautiful Bundesland, unlike Texas..
ViolentScorl Texas has mountains and canyons
@@KanyeTheGayFish69 You know Bavaria is in the Alps region right?
Latif Latifi I didn’t say it isn’t. I said that Texas can be beautiful too.
@@violentscorl697 Texas is beautiful and much bigger
Correction: He wasn't called "Autobahn Bismarck", but "Otto von Bismarck" ;-)
😂
Hahahaha
😂😂😂
More like otto bon vismark
hahahaha
02:42
Fun fact: King Ludwig II built the castle Neuschwanstein, wich was a big inspiration for the Disney castle/ Cinderella's castle.
probably best remembered by many though for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
He mentioned that in the Geo Now episode
Fun Fact: Hamburg has 2000+ more bridges than venice.
Yeah, but it's nearly two times bigger than venice and has 7 times more people living there
It has actually more bridges than Venice, Amsterdam and London combined.
@@misterbotanica ist das echt so?
@@TerrorSpatz Jep, stimmt.
TerrorSpatz Neee, der verarscht dich.
5:50 Im from Bremen and the "memorial block" isnt dedicated to her as a person, it actually marks the spot of her execution which was the last ever in Bremen.
some rumors that u have to spit on it.
@@MitcheltonDan it's still sometimes seen that people spit on it while walking by it
Bin auch Bremer und wusste es anders aber gut zu wissen😂👌🏻
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Und das letzte Bild zu Bremen war aus Potsdam
So i‘m living in the party State of germany, though im sitting in my bedroom on saturday evening and watch a Video about things i already now
at least you're not from the Saarland
Die haben NRW auf seine Städte und Katholizismus reduziert. Als evangelischer Oberberger fühle ich mich wahrscheinlich wie viele andere im Süden von NRW östlich von Köln unterrepräsentiert. Das Münsterland, der Niederrhein, komplett Westfalen und die enge Verbindung in die Niederlande und nach Belgien fehlen genauso.
Saarland is like the Alabama of Germany lol
Sweet home Saarland lol
Deutschland hat 15 Bundesländer und ein gescheitertes Projekt namens "Saarland".
Wieso? gibt es im Saarland wohl soviel Inzest?
Im Saarland gibts nich mehr Inzest wie in anderen Bundesländern aber ok
Willsche disch Prügeln?xD
8:56
"capital: Düsseldorf"
*shows picture of cologne*
Ps you don't habe to comment that you hate Düsseldorf or cologne
I’m from Düsseldorf
And hate cologne
@@jpb2541 Well obviously you hate the better city...
@@marianr.0231 Yes he clearly said that he hates Colongne
@@marianr.0231 Haha keep telling yourself that
I guess it was a secret hint to the movie A Team wear the same mistake happened
Don't get confused, because there are two Frankfurts: Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt an der Oder 😅😂🤷🏻♂️
Jens Ranger But Frankfurt Oder is the main one
@@NDSVM Haha :D
Niklas H. Du armes Würstchen
There are actually 3 - Frankfurt in the Magdeburger Börde is a very very small village
j_e_s_s_ i Hauptsache im Osten
Germans see „german“ title. All germans: ZUGRIFF
Ist echt so😂
What a unique joke, I've never seen this before...
@@wesusmaikelhier1718 Yeah, classic.
@@wesusmaikelhier1718 und trotzdem lustig zu lesen
@@nonosquare1066 nein, nicht mal im Ansatz
I'm from Schleswig-Holstein and it's true. We don't speak a lot. That's why we only say "Moin". "Moin Moin" would be way too talkative.
Das Moin und das Wattenmeer gehört euch aber nicht alleine. 🤨 Grüße aus Niedersachsen.
@@monkey_8227 Oho! Grüße aus dem tiefen Süden? Vielen dank!
@@Kaefer1973 hahahaha
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Also ther can be a huge rivalry between the states of Germany. Especially when it's about football or beer
August beste
Heja BVB🖤💛
@@thulsa_doom in your dreams
@@antoniusnoll9670 Nein September! Hahaha
Not to mention the rivalry between Baden and Württemberg
Düsseldorf!
*shows a picture of Cologne*
2:44 That's not that correct, because several German states including Saxony and Württemberg also had their monarchy and kings.
I was to say that too. Even he said "at one point". So, there was a king of Bohemia, the Brandenburger got to be king "in Prussia" which made his kingdom become Prussia and then Napoleon made a whole group of monarchs king. Including our Saxon who before was twice king of Poland. It was really popular to be king.
before 1871 it feels like every city had a king or a lord or a count or something like this
I cannot believe he mentioned Crazy Ludwig but no Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference to Neuschwanstein...
3:10 When you're so caught up between Germany's international image and history, that "Otto von Bismarck" becomes "Otto ban Vismarck aka. Auto bahn Vismarck"
edit: closer to 3:09 actually
You know hed definatly wouldve been made fun of... if the Autobahn had existed back then...
Oh, so he said Otto ban Vismarck? I legitimately understood Autobahn-Bismarck as in like his title and was like "wait... He didn't invent the autobahn or am I wrong?"
@@mellyslife5950 Adolf Hitler is known for developing the "Autobahn" infrastructure. The only good thing he ever did in his entire life.
@@affemitwaffe398 Except the Autobahn was invented while the Weimarer Republik, he just was the "executive" building it without having the money that was necessary...
@@craigveurr452 Yeah, you're right. But I would still say, that he was a developer of the Autobahn, even though he did not invent it. But it doesn't really matter since there are some other aspects in his life that history researchers should focus on.
Die letzten Worte von König Ludwig waren übrigens:
"I glaub i geh ins Wasser"
Wirklich? Geiler Moment XD
bruh moment
Friedrich August der dritte verabschiedete sich von seinem Posten mit da macht die Scheiße docb allen
That start was hilarious!
>Black Forest
>Swabian Culture
As a Badener I feel slightly offended
@@640kareenough6
Das schönste Land in Deutschlands Gau'n, das ist das Badnerland, es ist so herrlich anzuschau'n und ruht in Gottes Hand!...
das sclimste ist das die elzach zeigen und sagen Swabian
@@randallmarshall2139halb deutscher elsasser hier.
Das sagt keiner
@@nilswettlin2012 im video aber schon
Badenser
How could you forgot that Jägermeister is from Lower Saxony ?!!😂
Lower Saxonians only drink Becks and Jägermeister 😂
@@monkey_8227 It's a disgrace to say that!
@@monkey_8227 Quatsch, no they dont!
@@monkey_8227 Urgh! You kiddin' me?! No one in their right mind drinks Beck's. It's for export only. We have our own local and regional breweries: Jever, Nörten-Hardenberger, Einbecker, Gilde Ratskeller, Wolters, Härke, ...
Moin Moin?! It better be afternoon, I cannot stand people talking that much in the morning.
Or as we intellectuals greet each other „Moiens“
Oder "Moinsen".
Porsche, not Porsch!
for the confused ones: it's not Porschee either.
Also Volkswagen not Wolkswagen
Its funny how you argue about how the car brands are pronounced, yet nobody has called Barbs out on calling Bismarck "Otto bon Wismarck"...
@@Flugzeugdreger feel free to make a full list
@Jonny Müller: There were enough comments about Otto when I posted this.
1:13 Baden-Württemberg
2:13 Bayern / Bavaria
3:14 Berlin
4:20 Brandenburg
5:11 Bremen
6:00 Hamburg
6:46 Hessen / Hesse
7:27 Niedersachsen / Lower Saxony
8:06 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
8:56 Nordrhein-Westfalen / North Rhineland Westphalia
9:35 Rheinland-Pfalz / Rhineland-Palatinate
10:04 Saarland
10:45 Sachsen / Saxony
11:40 Sachsen-Anhalt / Saxony-Anhalt
12:18 Schleswig-Holstein
13:03 Thüringen / Thuringia
13:55 Two Other Things
Lmk if I made any errors w the state names, I’m not from Germany.
thanks a lot brother
As someone from Mainz, I can forgive the pronounciation, but something that would have been really cool to mention that Johannes Gutenberg is from here, the guy who invented the printing press!
No, he did not invent the printing press. ;P There are earlier presses like that, just smaller. He also didnt invent the printing technique. The first printed book was made more 1000 years before Gutenberg lived!
Der moderne Buchdruck mit den auswechselbaren Lettern einer Satzschrift in einer Druckerpresse (Typendruck), der die flexible, relativ kostengünstige und schnelle Erstellung größerer Auflagen ermöglichte, wurde im 15. Jahrhundert von Johannes Gutenberg erfunden. Er leitete eine Demokratisierung der Schaffung und Verbreitung von Informationen ein - schuf aber auch die Grundlagen für einen massiven Ausbau tendenziell freiheitsfeindlicher staatlicher und kirchlicher Bürokratie.
Quote from Wikipedia. Greetings from Mainz!
Larus Novale
He invented movable-type printing. Printing press was invented 300 years earlier by Koreans.
(Which you can learn all about if you pay the Gutenberg Museum a visit. Very interesting stuff.)
@@gintokisakata7490 Have you forgotten *GLORIOUS* Eurocentrism and publicity?
Sorry guys. I know that printing was a thing before that, I just wasn‘t aware that it was also called a press. I thought press then referred to that movable printing stuff someone mentioned before. My English terminology in that regard is a bit janky. I still think that his contribution to things like the reformation was important enough to consider him the inventor of printing in Europe basically
In Wirklichkeit wollen wir einfach nur das Saarland gegen Elsass Lothringen eintauschen.
Best comment so far 😃
Aber hieße das dann nicht das Saarland umschlossen von DE wäre?
@@axelmuller7946 Das ist ja Teil des Plans ;)
@@stahlblau4993 Achso und sich das dann wieder zurück holen weil die irgendwann kein Bock mehr auf ein umschlossenes Land, seht guter Plan ;)
@@axelmuller7946 Dachte eher daran, dass das SL dann doch wieder zu uns kommt ;D
Next filler week: states of the HRE
that would take atleast a filler month...
@@NeverEverClever let's do it!
You wanted to say filler year?
just do an extra channel which is called Geography 1800!
1 hour video
3:09 "autobahn vismarck"
As austrian I find the Bismarck quote so funny
... cause it's true
So you don't consider yourself human? (confused fellow Austrian here)
@@_mortiam it's more the mixture of the cliché sense of german "superiority", the inherent and utterly different world the austrian and the german live in and the seemingly neverendless story of Bavaria, somehow Germany but it never really wanted to be a part of it - like Britain and the EU now ;)
All distilled in one short quote.
@Bernhard thanks for the explanation, it is funny though.
@Voxhill 88 Auf Englisch bitte! :)
@@berndisterndi-gugutschatscha The majority of the British didn't vote for and don't want Brexit!!! Only 37% of the electorate voted to leave, so whilst you will still hear a lot of lies and from either misinformed, dishonest, or unintelligent British politicians who are still selling their impossible dream, for mostly self interest this isn't the view of most people in the country (politicians acting in their own self interest, surely not). Many of us are still hoping that it won't happen, however unlikely that seems at the moment. Nothing should ever be distilled into one short quote on any subject!!! Loved the video and Bavaria and Austria are amazing places, and I'd recommend anyone who hasn't been goes if they have the chance, so much amazing scenery, history, culture, food, drink, people, and much more.
6:30 Hamburg isn't really the IT capital of Germany. That's a title a lot of german cities claim, for example Munich, Hanover, Berlin and also Bielefeld, a city that, according to some people, doesn't even exist. Also everyone knows the actual IT capital of germany is Delmenhorst.
This comment section makes me feel at home xD
Hamburg has a lot of SAP stuff, so their IT sector is really strongly interconnected to economical stuff.
Berlin is the biggest start-up city besides of Amsterdam and London and has a lot of projects going on, very diverse.
Munich is everything with engineering practically.
So yeah, they are all IT capitals in their own way.
Totally agree. But Delmenhorst? Thats what you would label the "IT-Capital" of Germany?
We have the most bridges in europe😉😁🤣
As a direct neighbor to Delmenhorst I can tell you: No. Delmenhorst is the capital of crime, dirt, potholes and bad drivers. As for the IT, I highly doubt anyone over there does even know how to put on a PC.
"Bavaria is known for Beer"
U just triggert 15 other Bundesländer plus Tschechien and polen
(Sorry i dont know the english Terms)
Hesse doesn‘t care. We have cider.
who needs beer when you have G Ü S T R O W E R K O R N?
jk, our beer is great too
@@deadlive3212 und Apfelwein
Naja, Bayern macht das beste Bier... Sooo🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
@@iamdustin04
schnauze da unten xd
nene, ihr macht schon gutes bier, aber unsers is mir immernoch lieber
Him: Everyone in Saarland can speak french.
Me: Living there since I was 4, taking french for 8 years, not knowing how to say my name.
Well.....
You don't have to! Keep strong! :D
Is french mandatory in school there?
@@gubblfisch350 In nursery school you learn it, then at the first 4 years of school are optional, the next two are mandatory and then optional again. You see theres a reason why we dont speak much french because its shitty to learn here
No need to learn French actually.
as a german the pronouniciation killed me XD
Marc as an American-german your english pronounciation kills me
Gereon but he didn’t pronounced in a comment?
Ben no but the people in my english class pronounce the words horrrrrrible
As an American who speaks German it was awful
Gereon horribly* lol
WHAT? No incest jokes about Saarland? I feel misrepresented. lol
Tell your sister about it ;)
Leul
Ne die Inzestwitze passen eher zu Südbayern und der Ostmark ;)
@@bigdick6225 lebst du hinterm Mond?
@AmazingHoffman world already know Donald Trump
How to piss off the Dutch: Make them wait another week for their episode and talk about their favourite enemy during the filler week. ;)
Anthony Stargaryen ja klaar, truth has been spoken
Awwwwww, I, as an import to the Low Lands, can forgive him especially as he's got two filler week videos this week. Besides, did you see on his social media that he had over 400 emails offering to help him on The Netherlands. My head would be spinning from that alone.
Better than counting them to "Grossdeutsche Loesung"
We meet again atlantian
PRAY THAT THE GLORIOUS KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS WILL FORGIVE YOU!!
Fun Fact: The capitals of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are right next to each other seperated only by the rhine river. If you were to cruise along the middle of the rhine river one half of your boat would be in mainz and the other in Wiesbaden.
How can you talk about Schleswig-Holstein without mentioning the WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival?
Wackeeeen 💥🔥!!!!!
True!
HELGAAAAA !!!!
Stimmt, sonst gibt es da ja nicht viel ...😝😂
How dare you? :D
7:50 No, the amish don't speak a variation of plattdeutsch.
They speak a variation of palatine German or some subgroups speak an allemanic german.
Both variations have pretty much nothing todo with plattdeutsch.
I think Amish dialectic is akin to Cajun French. Both groups immigrated to America centuries ago. Over time, both Amish and Cajun French (both isolated communities) changed and developed their own words, which had nothing to do with the mother tongues in Europe. Most French people understand maybe 1 word of every 10 words of Cajun. A few years ago, when there was a murder in Lancaster County PA (Amish country), the FBI brought in a German to translate. He didn't know what the hell they were talking about :)
@@dm-gq5uj Doesn't change the fact that the language spoken by the Amish didn't originate from Plattdeutsch
I'm mildly proud to be one of the few Americans who understand that the two different tribes "Germanni" and "Alemanni" are responsible for the name of the country in most of western Europe... The Slavs though... I think their general Niemcy/Nemecko/etc is probably tied to the ancient word concept of nemesis.... at least that's the idea I got from r/Polandball. Strangely, given my inherent linguistic psychic powers I see the tie between Duitsland, Deutschland, and Tyskland...
@Hernando Malinche I suggest you check the Greek language, buddy
@@dm-gq5uj Do you think every German does understand every german dialect?
Of cource, languages and dialects change over the years. But somebody not able to understand the original dialect, can also not understand the changed Version.
So Bavaria is basically the Texas of Germany.
Kim Halsey
Yup. Bavarians are very independent-minded too, like Texans
And Saxony is the Florida of Germany.
@@oneandonlynino nah man
OneAndOnlyNino
Saxony is more like the Alabama of Germany!
@@oneandonlynino Mallorca is the Florida of Germany
Video mit "Germany" im Titel.
Deutsche: EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN KOMMENTARBEREICH
Hahahahahaha true
Wow sehr kreativ.
I'm going to create a bot that posts this comment under every english video with "german" in the title.
@@lebens3585 please
@@lebens3585 Did you do it?
Some interesting facts:
Bavaria: There is a linguistical and cultural divide between Bavaria and Frankonia. Some decades ago, they tried the succession from Bavaria.
Hesse: The actual state are mostly the borders of the Hesse-States (Hessen-Darmstadt, Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Homburg), the free city Frankfurt and Nassau. For a long time the area between Mainz and Worms was part of it. That's the reason it's called Rheinhessen.
Lower Saxony: The original Saxony. Saxony and Saxon-Anhalt got this name thanks to the dispute between Barbarossa and Henry the Lion.
Schleswig-Holstein: The danish population have their own political party. It doesn't apply to the 5% rule, so they always have a seat in the Parlament.
They have a seat for as long as they can muster enough votes for 1 seat which has been kinda close at times.
@Hernando Malinche Another reason why Austria isn't part of Germany is also that the emperor of Austria, when offered the crown of German emperor, did not want to lose his territories in the Balkans, Italy and Poland so that he declined.
@Hernando Malinche they weren't able to absorb it. Neither Austria or Prussia was able to absorb the other. Because of that it came to war. Germany could only formed by one big nation.
I love the way you personify the states
4:40 The Kölner Dom was built over hundreds of years, so there's still hope!
Unsere Ur ur ur ur ur Enkel werden dann von dort ins All fliegen xD
@@Jan10181 wenn er dann mal endlich keine Baustelle mehr ist
632 Jahre.
loool. That Berlin roast was hilarious and so accurate 😂
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Never heard about Mecklenburg vorPOLEN and i'm from Germany
Me too. And I'm from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern xD
I'm from Poland and many Poles treat areas close to Szczecin on a German side, as a cheeper and more rural alternatives for a suburb houses and cottages in Poland.
"Pommern" comes from Polish "Pomorze" which means "by the sea".
I love us being compared to the "angry grampa", though. Constant mood, even among minors. Also - yay, the Müritz got mentioned. ♡
@@christopherchadwick2389 eingedeutschte Form des slawischen po more - „am Meer“
*The Saxon Tribes originated in Lower Saxony, not Saxony*
Then why it's named saxony though
@@singharpan9859 Because of royal families and medieval politics. What we call proper Saxony today was Upper Saxony back then.
But now, Upper Saxony is just Saxony and the core region where the Saxons originated from is now Lower Saxony. To vastly oversimplify it.
@@MrMartin1538 it's called dynastic shift.
True. That Part about the Saxons "being from Saxony" (East Germany) actually _really_ triggered me.. 😤
@@singharpan9859 Because Feudalism sucks.
8:57 you made a little mistake here. The red area you marked on the map is only half of NRW. The western part is also NRW.
Ken edits the vids its kens fault
Oh no, Ken is going to be fired
Ken also made a typo at 13:45. It's actually Klöße. Doesn't look good for him :o
Christian Kühne rip
Also, (and this is not really Ken's fault) Barbs calls it "Rhineland-Westphalia" a few times.
4:40 Luckily this has finally come to an end with the BER airport finally opening and the two other airports in Berlin being closed.
Ohh but Frankfurt is also the drug capital from Germany xD
Nein, Neukölln ist die Drogen Hauptstadt
BRUUH
Aachen
Da gibt es so ein paar bois lol
• Daniel dagegen ist Chorweiler Monaco
Also as someone from Thuringia myself a few more tidbits: The state capital Erfurt once had 38 churches of which only 27 remain including one of the oldest Romanesque style churches, it still has the oldest and biggest freeswinging medieval bell in the world the Gloriosa, the oldest Jewish treasure in Europe was also found in Erfurt. The English royal house was once called Saxe-Coburg-Gotha with their main seat the Ernestine castle in Gotha. Eisenach has a medieval castle where Luther spent his too, the Wartburg which is also on UNESCO list. The Thuringian Forest and Rennsteig are kind of the pendant the Black Forest. Thuringia also has the highest density of castles and palaces in Europe which makes maintaining them difficult, hence why some have been given back to their original noble owners.
@A. B. Home sweet home
Would love to visit one day
The green heart of Germany... ("Since when are hearts green?")
thanks for the tidbits
You kinda mentioned it but also got it wrong... The Germanic tribe of the Saxons has absolutely nothing at all in common (besides the name) with the people of Saxony. Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein is the homeland of the Saxons and they never moved to modern day Saxony.
The confusion comes from some political mess centuries ago. After that Saxony lost it's original homeland but didn't stop calling itself Saxony.
You can tell by the plattdeutsch people speak in the north. It's more similar to english than hochdeutsch.
Some Saxons and Flemish actually moved into the area of modern-day Saxony, but they account for less than 5% in influx...
I sent them a mail explaining why Saxony is called Saxony despite being mostly franko-thuringian and sorbian in ancestry.
A ruler of the house of Wettin married into the Saxon royal family and adopted the royal title. He then went on to call his lands "Kingdom of Saxony" in honor to his new title and to this day no one ever felt like changing the name... except for "Kingdom of"
Agreed. It was basically like lords taking on the title of "ruler of Saxony". First it shifted from modern Lower Saxony to what is now Saxony-Anhalt (under the House of Ascania) and then to what we today call Saxony under the House of Wettin, under the pretense that some ancestor of theirs was a lord of the original, north-western Saxony.
That's why there's not one, not two, but three Saxonies. Greetings from somebody who has lived in all of them!
Thank God! I was afraid nobody was going to mention it.
In "Sachsen" doot se ouk neyn sassisk küären so as wy. ^ . ^
It ain't "Rhineland-Westphalia", it's "North Rhine-Westphalia". But still awesome video🌝
On the map at 8:56 he also cut off a portion of the state
Irene Galicia uuuhhhhh what?
DVDspeler Oh yeah true XD
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Funfackt: Hamburg is the German Broadway
Gotta love "ck" though 😂
hey I hate hemlock Funfact, it’s a mixture of fact (English) and Fakt (German) 😅
Porsche is pronounced Porsche
no. its pronounced as Porsche.
outstanding move
I actually spat my drink on my phone thanks
oMg YoU aRe So StUpId ThIs IsNt hOw It WoRkS r/wooosh
how to pronounce "Besserwisser"?
Wer liebt sie nicht- die Koöße ? xD
THÜÜÜRINGER KLÖÖẞEE
DIE MAG ICH GERN!!!
@@justsven7268 Sir schmecken mir am meisten
😍😛
Sauerbraten mit Rotkohl und K(o)öße👌
11:38 "the two saxony's have nothing to do with each other '' (MENTIONS A 3RD SAXONY )
srsly, I dont know why they dont change the state names to ANHALT and get out of the middle of that debate
They should rename the state of Saxony to Upper Saxony, that would be a *little* more legitimate.
As in today's Saxony, non of the native inhabitants are related to the ancient Saxons.
The Saxons lived in the areas of today's Lower Saxony, parts of Westphalia and parts of Saxony-Anhalt.
So, the only people who are NOT Saxons are the ones living in the state Saxony.😄
the saxon tribes lived (mostly) in the north, though they weren't sedentary and had what is today the North and northeast as their domain. The Electorate/Kingdom of saxony was where Saxony is today though, which is where the name comes from in that part
1) Baden-Württemberg is not Swabia, there exists a lot of rivalry between Baden on the west (Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Freiburg) and the east (Stuttgart, Tübingen, etc.), and the west is often culturally closer to Alsace/Pfalz than Stuttgart and the east.
2) Bavaria is not the only state to have had a king, nearly all former duchies/kingdoms (today's states) had kings/regents, none after WW2 though. You are right though in saying that Bavaria generally likes to think of itself as distinct from the rest of Germany. Also, King Ludwig II's death (and life) was far more mysterious than simply "he drowned himself".
3) I don't know who you talked to about Berlin but that view of the city is a bit dated, by about 15 years, perhaps. These days it's becoming especially popular among the younger generation, digital nomads, and English speakers, not to mention the soaring tourism rates. It's way more multicultural than almost anywhere else in the country (except pockets in big cities like Cologne), and it's very distinct from the rest of Germany. Also the thing about the airport isn't really a Brandenburg thing in specific, it's heaps of mismanagement at various levels.
You forgot there are Swabians in Bavaria also! I live in Augsburg... and our City is the splitting point between swabians and bavarians
Baden-Würtemberg and Bavaria are really both patchwork states built by Napoleon with the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss (though Baden and Würtemberg were only joined later, it was Napoleon who made them huge states when he discontinued states like the Palatinate and lots of others).
The Airport of Brandenburg is more Berlin than Brandenburg.
The Baden thing ist correct we aren't stingy at all
And Baden Württemberg actually is the only Bundesland who got to vote that they (Baden and Württemberg) want to be one Bundesland after WWII
12:36 you say actualy only "moin".
greetings from Schleswig-Holstein 😉🤘
I'm from Schleswig-Holstein too ^^
Naw, you just nod and say nothing.
Dachte immer das isn Niedersachsen ding, wusste nicht das das in Schleswig Holstein auch so ist 😋
do you know what the most difficult german dialect is?.....
Americans speaking german😂😉
Heard Australians speaking German its much better, according to my German tutor at least.
@@Mastealth Nah chef, I'm German but grew up in Australia. The one american kid in my German class copped it the hardest XD
I'd throw in a German speaking English with a Hessian accent.
I know German
You shouldnt make fun of his accents. Especially given its not his native language.
Love learning about where my ancestors came from. I'm almost fully German besides a little English from my mom's side. Other than that, my dad's family came from North Rhineland-Westphalia, and the German part of my mom's family came from Bavaria! We have cousins in Germany that we keep in contact with! They only speak and write in German, so every Christmas when we get a Christmas card from them I have to try my hardest to translate it! I'm learning German so I can actually write back to them eventually!
nice that you keep in touch with your German heritage. :) I know learning German can be difficult, but dont give up, its worth it and not only to communicate with your family. ;) Lots of love from Offenbach am Main, Hessen! 😊🖤❤💛
@@gennaroliguori376 Omg endlich jemand der auch von Hessen kommt😭
if Frechen is your Sir name, i can tell you, Frechen is a small City close to Cologne, basically almost part of cologne, but there is nothing going on. No sights, no famous people born.
PLEASE don't say Moin moin when you come to Schleswig- Holstein. 'Moin Moin' is like saying you want to cheew the ear of the other person of! Just say Moin with a slight nod thats more than enough to say 'Hello'. ;) Less words more straight forward meaning ;)
Don't smile at strangers if you come to Schleswig-Holstein, only allowed if you know them.
I dislike anyone who says moin moin. One moin is more than enough salutation for anyone in ear shot.
Leute die in den Norden ziehen und dann mit Moin moin kommen, weil sie das mal irgendwo gehört haben 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Actually in Schleswig-Holstein it is most common to greet by saying "Fick deine Mutter du Hurensohn"
What about Alsace-Lorraine? Oh yeah...
At least there's east pruss... Wait
Alsace-Lorraine has gone back and forth between Germany and France so many time. My great-grandmother was from there, before emigrating to Canada. She considered herself to be French.
@@sixletters9759 yeah I am from Moselle, my great grandmother was born German, and my great uncle was forced to fight for Germany during world war II. It makes very interesting history.
The Brad Gaming, you are so wrong about it being about WWII. You need to learn a lot more history.
Get over it
@The Brad Gaming I let some air out my nostrils and smirked when I read your post. C'était drôle ;)
Hamburg is like Amsterdam. Stupid stereotypes lik Hamburgers and weed. Both famous for their red light district as well.
Hamburgers (the food) are actually named after Hamburg. They were first sold by immigrants from Germany in NY. Back then, Hamburg was the "door to the world". Every German who immigrated to the US had to go through Hamburg.
Fun fact many people seem to forget (or don't know): Hamburgers are actually from Hamburg. Or at least their origin is Hamburg.
I really want to thank you...you also covered the more "unpopular" states and gave them a chance to shine.
(Greetings from Brandenburg)
What a rare sight, a real Brandenburgian who neither moved to Berlin nor drove into an alley tree out of pure despair
@@majan6267We are an endangered species here in Germany...do you by any chance know the ,,Brandenburg" Song ?
@@warged7309 would i have referenced the ally tree if i didn't know it? ;)
@@majan6267 Probably no....thats why I asked
Do the historic counties or 'shires' of England and try to attempt each ones accent.
As a proud Saarland resident, I'm slightly disappointed in the fact that the Saarschleife hasn't been featured. It's one of the most enticing all-natural views one can get and a must-have when you're on a trip through Germany, especially if you're on route to get to France. However, it's definitely nice to receive a bit of intel on what other cultures and other nations think about our states, so good job on that!
He could have also mentioned the Saar Polygon, that's also a great sight
8:56 you missed half of the state there lol
I shall continue to suggest Japan's prefectures until it happens. Love you Barbs
No! China's provinces!
Agree.
No. He has to go back to part of his roots and do Italy's regions first. After that, he can cover whatever he wants. Agreed?
Japanese prefectures, Italian regions, South Korean provinces, French regions (including the overseas territories), Argentine provinces, Chinese provinces, eventually Swiss Cantons (as a filler week somewhere in between the nations that begin with T or U?)
I would like to hear about Finnish or Swedish counties (maakunta's and län's)
"Schleswig-Holstein is like the Denmark of Germany"
That is in fact accurate and most radio stations have weather reports for north germany. And by that they mean every northern state except SH. So you are get better weathereports from danish radio stations.
Also yeah we don't talk much. And if someone asks you "Na wie is?" you just answer with "Joa muss ja". No more talking needed
Jo genau
@Hauke Holst I know, I'm from Kiel. It's more of a running gag :)
Schleswig-Holstein is like the Denmark of Germany because prior to the second Schleswig war from 1864 Schleswig was danish.
@@EddieMorphling But Holstein wasn't danish for most of the 18th century
@@R00siable You have a point there.
In Schleswig-Holstein we just greet with "Moin!". If you say "Moin Moin!" you talk too much. ;)
the same goes for mecklenburg vorpommern
True
Same for most parts of lower saxony
@@arabiansandboa8865 and hamburg
seems like no one says moin moin
in conclusion: the north doesnt talk too much
Thank you so much. I've been living in Germany for 4 years now. Learned a lot from this video
Where you live?
Kannst du gut deutsch?
Regions of Italy next please!
Abruzzo: from mountain to sea in 30 minutes
@@TL98 Liguria: from mountains to sea in 10 minutes
Lombardy: from mountains to Liguria in 40 minutes
Darken631 give us south tyrol back please, you can keep trient
@@konplayz I live in South tyrol and no one wants to be austrian or indipendent
Do the Cantons of Switzerland next pls
ooh yes that’d be interesting bc they’re all so different
this!
Now I would like to know something about that
That requires a looot of research...
otto bon vismarck... OTTO BON VISMARCK
come on man its otto VON BISmarck
Yes but that way it sounded like autoban.
@@LieutenantSilver Autobahn
Yeah he butchered almost every pronunciation in this video.
Pronounciation confirmed by ME! :P
Autobahn Vismarck
Swabians have the wierdest dialect
Bavarians: Hold my Dirndl
Well, atleast you can understand Bavarian
Hoid möi Dirndl, bittschäh!
Ja sog amol was des fürn Gschiss hier isch uns Schwoba ke mo do super versteha
Hä Bayrisch aknn man voll leicht verstehen Schwäbisch ist sehr schwer zu verstehen...
Swiss People: Hey we can talk normal German!
Bavarians: We too but NO
Hey! Sebastian from Schleswig-Holstein here! I love your videos and learned much from them! Thank you very much for that! =)
As a native "Schleswig-Holsteiner" I have to make a small comment here: A study from 2015, which was made by the university of Hamburg, counted about 100000 people of danish origin in whole Germany. 25000 of them live in Hamburg. So I consider 75000 out of 2,89 Mio. not as "many" danish speaking people ;). Of course, it is common, to learn danish. In many schools, it is even the first foreign language or the second after english. But this is more usual close to the danish border, than it's in south Schleswig-Holstein. But still there are few, who speak good danish.
My second point: There is a saying in S-H, which says: Hallo heisst hier "Moin", "Moin Moin" is Gesabbel!" which roughly translates to "To say Hello, you say Moin, if you say "Moin Moin", you talk to much!" Thought, this could be interesting for you! ;)
Best wishes, A northern German Fan!
Moin
14:07 Its called Bundesland instead of Bundesländer, Bundesländer is plural
Sorry for my bad English
oh nobus i
Hi (sorry for my bad English), du hast Recht (sorry for my bad German)
@cstmth thanks
Dein English ist besser als das der meisten Amerikaner.
(I’m American, by the way.)
cstmth Thanks! I took it for three years in high school :)
The State of Saxony has nothing to do with the Anglo-Saxons, thats Lower Saxony and Westphalia (Both the true Saxons ;)
Yeah don't know how he got that wrong.
I mean he even mentioned that there is a connection between Lower Saxony and Netherlands. But there is also a historical connection to britain.
Thank you for posting this. Yes, the Black Forest is in Baden Würrtemberg and Germany is known for its fairy tales. The famous Grimm brothers (Jacob and Wilhelm), however, originated from Hessen and did not create, but rather collect the Grimm's Fairy Tales, mainly in the Hessen area. Thank you, by the way, for making such a good effort trying to pronounce German names of cities and countries as well as you do!
Miss Universe Germany 2023 is from Baden her national costume is Rapunzel copy clothes from Disney’s adoption of Brothers Grimm
the saxons in anglo-saxon are from nowadays lower saxony not saxony :b
I wanted to say the same. Saxony only got the name from the Saxon dukes who inherited the region, the people there have nothing to do with the Saxons who settled England.
@@HerrLBrodersen I'd rename Niedersachsen to Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt to Anhalt and Sachsen to Meissen.
Angeln is a region of Schleswig-Holstein this Dialekt is mix between englisch and german plattdeutsch.....
Berzelmayr meissen? Was redest du da für einen Unsinn
@@Berzelmayr Agree so much
No disrespect to meißnians but they don't even speak the Saxon Language (Plattdeutsch),
They don't even call themselves "Saxon" until few centuries ago
Trier citizen here! 🙌 People usually forget that this town even exists, so thanks for the shout-out. ;D Wasn't expecting that.
Trier has great wine.
@@corvus1374 Part of the reason why I love living here so much. ;D
The Porta Nigra and all the archaeological stuff are pretty cool. And of course the Moselwein.
Hamburg is often referred to as "Das Tor zur Welt" - Germanys gateway to the world. It has that huge port in the middle of the city, where you see large container vessels and cruisliners pass by like they were cars. Hamburg is less conservative than the rest of Germany (exept Berlin maybe), very open minded and international. It is also the most beautiful and diverse german city and has been voted that many times. They have the most interesting and diverse architecture both historic and modern, most bridges in the world next only to NYC (there is water everywhere), huge nightlife, huge cultural diversity, many beautiful! beaches (in the city!), germany's only "Süsswasserauenwatt" (a unique freshwater tideland forrest), city forrests, lakes and swamps, it is just full of trees and parks, it is all green. In the very center of the city lays the huge Alster lake. The district of Blankenese lies on a steep hillside and is mostly accessible only by stairways, It's often compared to a southern french mediterranean village. The "Speicherstadt" (Unesco world heritage) is a whole historic harbour district built of red clinker bricks and into the huge Elbe river. The beauty of Hamburg is not as obvious as the beauty of other cities (which have all old buildings and that's it), but it has that and just so much more to offer. People are friendly, open, down to earth and fun (although stereotypes will tell you otherwise), and they are known for a somewhat sarcastic humour which is often misunderstood by the south. And the hoppy beer is better than in the south. They have the worldfamous Mojo Club, Golden Pudel Club and countless other unique clubs with a big big live scene. Choose from 50 to 100 concerts every day. The Reeperbahn district in St. Pauli has the most concentrated nightlife in all of germany, maybe Europe. Hamburg has a huge university, it has the FC St. Pauli soccer team, that is known worldwide for its unique fan culture, also the HSV team, which was the "dinosaur" of german soccer until they descended to the second league for the first time last year. Hamburg has the hamburgers original! And the "Museum of Hamburg history" will just simply blow your mind. It is a very rich city, but not everybody is rich. Beyond the wealthiness unfolds a so unique 'peoples culture' and subculture. Hamburg is as diverse as it gets, and it takes time to be discovered.
I absolutely LOVE Hamburg. It's my third favorite city in Germany after Cologne and Bonn.
Hamburg ist das Tor zur Welt , aber Bremen hat den Schlüssel dazu 😏
@@tayfun8975 Kollege Fischkopp, da hassu ja ma ein rausgeknallt wa?
I'd say that Berlin is like a big Hamburg except it's poor 😁
And Berlin has Trams which are mostly on time unlike buses^^
Hamburg, meine Heimat ❤️
Epic subtitles. I lost it at 10:29 "f*cking in ironworks".
I died of laughter when i saw that
Waaaait! I'm gonna stop you right there! As someone who lives in Brandenburg (Potsdam) I just want to point out that the BER, so the Airport who just wont finish.. that's Berlins responsability! We don't have anything to do with that! Nope! xD Man even we joke about that thing. Did you know that they had the lights on 24/7 for about 4 Month before realising they can't find the damn light switch? Honestly.. that really happend. xD Noone remembered where they put it.
That whole airport is a joke and it's not brandenburgs fault! :D
well, at least it's not the giatn clusterf*** that is the London Airport mess..
Just to Let’s you know: It‘s finished!
And it needs to be repaired. So stupid.
@@derlesende it's a mediocre airport, I prefer Tegel
Kurzer Hinweis, der BER war ein Projekt von 3 Bündnispartnern: Berlin, Bund und Brandenburg. Und es gab gigantische Fuckups von allen Seiten. Allerdings haben es die Bündnispartner von Bund und Brandenburg gut geschafft, die ganze Schuld auf Berlin abzuwälzen
@@MWoyde
Insgesamt korrekt. Hauptverantwortlich sind in meinen Augen die Politiker der beiden Länder, die quasi einen neuen Weg beim durchführen von Großprojekten einschlugen.
Alles in Allem ein schwache Folge von Geography Now. Zu Brandenburg hätte man so viel Bekanntes erzählen können. Z.B. der Spreewald, Sorben und Wenden in Südbrandenburg, Tagebau mit den größten beweglichen Maschinen der Welt ect.pp..
Außerdem gibt es kein "Cottbus-Castle". Das gezeigte Bild ist das Cottbuser Staats-Theater.
The word Porsche has two syllables (1:25). 2:39 - Bavaria was not the only country with it's own king (the others were Saxony, Württemberg and Prussia). Bremen is not the only Free Hanseatic City (the other being Hamburg). The Habours of Bremen and Bremerhaven are not on the Elbe river. The territory of North-Rhine-Westphalia (not North Rhinland Westphalia!) is not completely couloured in this map for some reason: 8:56. Cologne is not the "media-capital" of Germany (that would be Berlin). The Sorbian minority is mostly situated in southern Brandenburg (and not in Saxony). the dumplings are called Klöße (not koöße: 13:44). The singular for Federal State is "Bundesland" (14:04 "Bundesländer" is the plural).
And the current federal state of Saxony, historically also referred to as Upper Saxony (Obersachsen), has nothing to do with the original Saxons who -- in the 6th century -- also settled on the British Isles (along with the Holsteinian Angles and the Danish Jutes). Old Saxony (Altsachsen) was mostly situated in the current federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen). The reason the name "Saxony" moved southeast along the Elbe river is that the ducal title was enfeoffed to various ruling houses over the centuries (Henry the Lion -> Ascanians -> Wittenberg -> Meissen) that had their other possessions farther (south)east and either were stripped of their title, died out, or split into various cadet branches.
The map was showing Westfalen-Lippe. It was missing the Rhineland part of NRW.
I'm sorry to say that, but Berlin is just the capital... the media capital should be Munich or Düsseldorf, but that maintains on the counting disciplines.
@@raloona okäy
The Grimm's fairy tales do not root in the Black Forest, but in the Harz.
There are a lot more free hanseatic cities: Lübeck, Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund
Wrong!: saxony has nothing to do with the Tribe of the saxons. The Tribe lived in Schleswig Holstein and Niedersachsen areas.
What an incredible clusterfuck
It's the same as Deutschland being called Germany. While the Germanen moved more to the south-east before Germany was even imaginable.
The Anglo and Saxon were two major tribes in Schleswig Holstein wich started settlements in England wich is why English is called Anglo-Saxon and why English has a lot of words in common with Platt-Deutsch like the word Clock for example...
And Franconia is a place in Northern Bavaria that shares it's name with the country of France.
Basically East and West Franconia, where the West became France and the East became a clusterfuck of German states.
Well Not quite...
Niedersachsen was primarily occupied by the Frisian tribe. The Schleswig-Holstein area was where the Angel-Tribe came from.
The Saxon’s occupied modern day „Westfalen“
The white horse that’s on the Westfalian banner is Widukinds white mare that he rode instead of an black Stallion as he became Christian, thus ending the Saxonrevolts under Chalemange. Or so the Legend goes 😜
I'm a Hungarian living in Germany, and this is one of my favourite videos on RUclips 😊
Football and beer are missing in North Rhine-Westphalia 😐 But otherwise nice video.
You know something is missing when football isn't even mentioned in a GERMANY video.
Voca Channeru True 😂
Yeah Schalke-BVB rivalry deserved a mention lol
Kyle Sekenski Borussia Dortmund 🖤💛
There can't be anyone living in North Rhine-Westphalia. They are all here in Zeeland the Netherlands.
Ah it really hurts being called "Swabian" when you're from Baden... Yes there is a heavy difference between Baden and Württemberg. And only the Wurttembergs are Swabians, the other half of the state aren't... Baden-Württemberg is pretty much a forced marriage.
Als Schwabe sag ich das nur ungern zu einem Badenser, aber du hast recht
I know you to be right because my Mom is from Geislingen (a.d.S.) but I have to ask you to forgive him because I would say that most people outside of B-W. dont know that. And here a translation for Florian Wieses comment: "As a swabian I dislike to say this to someone from Baden but you are right."
Only a Badner, being the little insecure brother, needs to mention the "heavy difference" between Schwaben and Baden. For an outsider the two regions are actually very, very similar.
@@jakobbrenner3820 Basically, the butt-hurt goes both ways. Technically, both are parts of what makes up the Alemannic speaking area of Germany. Historically, though (and Badener will hate me for saying it), the Swabians are the major branch of Alemannic people down there, as can be easily seen in the Germanic tribe of the Suebi.
Well no, Württemberger are not really the same as Swabians, I as an Oberschwabe would use the term "Württemberger" for people living in the north in the region around Stuttgart, and not for discribing myself. In fact they have a slightly different diaclect compared to ours here in the south and also an other way of living and thinking, as you for example can see in our elections.
You forgot to mention Ludwig van Bethoven, who was born in Bonn (North Rhine Westphalia), wich is also the former capitol of former west Germany before 1990.
Yeah, the good old times when Bonn was still the capital...
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